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Show arteries as'it shebt Bat Dr. Crile is revolutionary also in his story of "shock" and "oollapse-ttie two forms cf sudden death, hitherto attributed to heart failure Of course, the heart fails ijj these cases, tut Dr. Crile holds that it is not due to any . weakness weak-ness of the heart, Alter the experiments had shown that adrenalin In Baline solution could maintain the circulation of the blood with the heart isolated from the nervous sj-stem, it oiUwed that a decapitated animal might be kept alive for some time. A dog was decapitated. Adrenalin in salt solution was immediately and continuously administered, and it was found that the blood pressure could be controlled con-trolled at will. The beheaded animal lived ten and one-half hours: Some wonderful things have been i claimed for adrenalin. An Indiana doctor recently announced thafby the use of adrenalin he had succeeded suc-ceeded in restoring the dead to life. So. far such experiments with adrenalin have been made on dogs and rabbits. But the question is, will it stand the test when a human being's life is at stake? A New Remedy for Shock and Collapse. The announcement from New York that heart failure may at last be dealt with effectively will come as good news to the layman, but the medical expert will not be moved to joy over the alleged discovery until the efficacy of the new treatment is demonstrated by practical testg. The very thought that the man or woman stricken suddenly, collapsing collaps-ing without apparent reason, may be saved with the proper remedy is iu itself remarkable. But such is ihe theory of Dr. George Crile, announced to the Boston Medical society. He has leen conducting special experiments bearing upon the question of the sudden collapse of persons not suffering with heart disease (especially during surgical operations) and says he has found a speekic which will restore the cinnlation of the blood and bring the sufferer back to erfectly normal health, in that wonderful substance called adrenalin, which is the secretions of the glands over the kidneys, extracted chemically. chemi-cally. ChVinists have succeeded in extracting the secretions formed in those ductless glands lying in the abdomen, just over the kidneys, called the suprarenal glands, and have given to the surgeon a new substance with which to stop hemorrhages in minor operations. A New York chemist has gone even further and found the most effective form of this secretion, and it is used generally by the profession, pro-fession, so that in an operation upon the eye, for instance, in-stance, the patient need lose only a few drops of blood. Dr. Crile announces the efficacy of adrenalin, adrena-lin, this extract from the glands over the kidneys, in restoring the circulation of the blood when for some reason it has ceased flow through the reins and |